Chav vs Grebo - What's the difference?
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(UK, pejorative, offensive) A working-class youth, especially one associated with aggression, poor education, and a perceived "common" taste in clothing and lifestyle.
* 2011 , ‘Giving the poor a good kicking’, The Economist , 18 Jun 2011:
(slang, UK, predominantly West Midlands) A greaser or biker; a member of any alternative subculture, as opposed to a chav or townie.
*1998 , "Bill Jillians", alt.journalism.gonzo (Internet newsgroup)
*:The highlight of my school days was one day in the mid-70s. There was a sort of glam-rock cult called the Grebos back then who wore smartish Disco clothes...
*2002 , Glyn Brown, Baxter Dury: Chip off the old Blockhead'' (''The Independent on Sunday )
*:But the realistic side stepped in — y'know, if you're on the point of giving birth, you don't really need a bunch of grebos playing some dodgy old music downstairs.
(slang, UK) A member of a United Kingdom subculture of the late 1980s and early 1990s, musically affiliated with garage rock and electronica, typically wearing baggy clothes and hair in high ponytails.
*1995 , Colin Larkin, The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music
*:...they were soon pigeonholed under the banner of "grebo rock"...
*2002 , Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide to Rock
*:...focused on the hyper punk aspect of England's "grebo" movement...
*2003 , Peter Buckley, Jonathan Buckley, The Rough Guide to Rock
*:This debut album is a glorious grebo -fest.
As nouns the difference between chav and grebo
is that chav is a working-class youth, especially one associated with aggression, poor education, and a perceived "common" taste in clothing and lifestyle while grebo is a greaser or biker; a member of any alternative subculture, as opposed to a chav or townie.chav
English
(wikipedia chav)Noun
(en noun)- His book concerns ‘chavs ’, a supposed underclass of ill-educated, fast-breeding, violent and amoral poor people currently plaguing Britain.
Synonyms
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* chavelling * chavette * chavster * chavtastic * chavving * chavvyReferences
*"Good news for chavs: they may be cool people soon"by Robin Young, The Times , 2004-10-19, accessed 2005-04-15 *
World Wide Words: chav, by Michael Quinion, accessed 2005-04-15 *
Posting by "Quizmonster" in The Answer Bank, 2005-02-22, accessed 2005-04-15 *
Posting by "Dick Jones" in FrizzyLogic, 2004-03-19, accessed 2005-04-15 *
"The Chavs are Coming", The Irish Times 2005-03-23, accessed 2005-04-15 * Bragg, M. 'The Adventure of English', London, Hodder and Stoughton, 2003: 26.